Week 1

For this first entry I'm just going to cut and paste the meal log that Don emailed me exactly as he wrote it -- with my thoughts in italics and parentheses after.

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Here is the damage for the last few days:

(I think it is important that he used the word "damage." It shows that he knows this food is doing damage to his body)

Thursday

- One packet of premix noodles and sauce (spinach Alfredo, required addition of butter to create sauce).
- 2 pints of 2% milk
- 1/2 sleeve Town House crackers
- one large tortilla w/ shredded cheese
- one butter sandwich (two slices buttered white bread)
- 1 glass scotch (12 year Balvenie)

(I commented on the butter sandwich, and he replied that he ate it because there was no other food in the apartment. So lesson #1: keep your kitchen stocked with at least some mildly healthy snacks. I'm not a nutrition fanatic or anything, but if you search my kitchen for snacks, you'll find sunflower seeds, avacados, cheese, water crackers, shrimp flavored crackers, mangos, and Indian Hot Mix (I wouldn't necessarily recommend the hot mix to people who live with a spouse and whose stomachs aren't used to gas inducing foods. I can eat this stuff like cereal and nothing is going to happen, but I can't promise the same for others.))

Friday

- 2 pints of 2% milk
- one pound baked tilapia fillets
- one turkey sandwich (two slices white bread, two slices of smoked deli turkey)
- 1 can Miller Lite

(I recommended that Don make the switch from white bread to whole wheat bread, to which he replied, "I understand the entire argument behind the brown breads.  After various atttempts throughout my life, I have only this counter-argument:  If I wanted to eat dry tree bark, I'd skip the middle men and walk outside to the nearest tree.")


(I never said this was going to be easy.)

(And I've never been a fan of the superfluous beer with dinner. Unless one really loves the taste of the beer -- which is highly unlikely in the case of Miller Lite -- leave it in the fridge for when your friends are over and pour yourself a glass of water (or Balvenie if you're looking for a buzz.))


Saturday

- one pound baked tilapia fillets
- two turkey sandwiches (same construction as above)
- 1 bowl Frosted Flakes w/  1% milk
- 2 cans Miller Lite

(One pound is a lot of tilapia. But at least it's fish, and it's baked.)


Sunday

- two 1/2 lb. hamburgers (sesame seed buns, dunked in ketchup)
- one Royal Gala apple [not all apples are created equal]

(Red meat is bad for you. Hamburgers are even worse. And two half lb. hamburgers in a day will get you a punch on your frequent diners card (19 more gets you a free heart attack.) I've heard full time athletes say they can eat five burgers at a time, but that's because they are FULL TIME ATHLETES. They are exercising and burning calories all day long. Their bodies are starved for energy. Most adults sit on their asses all day -- so we need to eat accordingly.)


Monday

- two 1/2 lb. hamburgers (see previous day)
- 32oz pure tangerine juice
- 1 pint 1% milk

1.5 mile walk

(Ok, the burgers have gotta stop. A half pound burger per week might be ok. But two pounds of ground beef in two days is definitely not ok.)


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Ok, so in conclusion, I think this was a good start. Don is going to write what he eats, and I'm going to give him shit for the bad stuff.


First picture and weigh in coming soon.